Vintage Infodesign [11]

If you follow Alberto Cairo‘s updates on his blog or on Twitter, you’ve probably familiar with John Snow’s cholera map, dated from 1854. Cairo has no problem electing this as one of the most important data visualizations ever, and you’ll see that mentioned on his book, The Functional Art.

Recently, Simon Rogers, editor of the Guardian Data Blog, wrote an interesting piece about this map, including a modern interactive version, created with CartoDB. You can check out the full post here, and we’ve included John Snow’s original map on today’s Vintage InfoDesign:

Master plan of development of the USSR’s agricultural sector (c1960)

The Astronomy of the Great Flood (1925) | The Illustrated London News

We’ll be back next week with another selection of vintage visualizations. Until then, keep following our daily updates here on Visual Loop, and if you came across some old map, chart of graph, send it to us and we’ll be sure to add it to our weekly selection.

Written by Tiago Veloso

Tiago Veloso is the founder and editor of Visualoop and Visualoop Brasil . He is Portuguese, currently based in Bonito, Brazil.